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Karzai inches toward Afghan poll win
Sun Sep 6, 2009 10:52am EDT
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KABUL, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai
inched closer to a first-round victory as more results came in
from an election last month marred by accusations of fraud.
With results tallied from slightly less than 75 percent of
polling stations, Karzai led his main challenger Abdullah
Abdullah by 48.6 percent to 31.7 percent. Karzai needs more than
50 percent to avoid a second in a run-off.
The fresh results will do little to end more than two weeks
of uneasy suspense over the outcome. Abdullah's camp says the
authorities stuffed ballots for Karzai on a huge scale.
Western leaders initially hailed the Aug. 20 election
because Taliban fighters failed to scupper it with attacks and
threats against voters. But as reports of fraud have mounted,
those assessments have grown more circumspect.
The election is key element in Western plans to bring Continued...
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